Hello, some months I ago I finished this project http://lexica.linguax.com/ ( http://www.linguax.com/lexica ) (has been edited 28.1.2014) where I pretty much make from PDF Latin dictionaries (such as a scanned version of Forcellini: Lexicon Totius Latinitatis) a version where you can search by typing on your keyboard: after writing a word, the page the word is in appears.

It is better than having some low quality OCR (an automatic transcription) and also better than to have just a PDF you cannot really search in - a compromise.

There are also some Latin-Greek and Greek-Latin dictionaries (ancient Greek). And I'm planning to add more.

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The second word I searched for was 'necopinatus' (unexpected, unforeseen). Only Forcellini had that one. Whitaker's Words has it too. It suddenly struck me: why not add Whitaker's Words to the top left-hand corner? Then we'd have a parser as well. Just a thought.

Interesting idea about the Whitaker... my problem is the space if I want to keep the page clean. By that I mean that I don't want to face the problem that a considerable part of the page is just "this text spam" and not the relevant information searched. Right now it is quite usable even on 1024*768 (I don't recommend any lower resolution and if you use a mobile phone browser... well, you'll have to deal with it somehow I access it sometimes (not often) on my phone, so I know).

I'm thinking about more dictionaries, but mostly I'm afraid that the public won't see the results as most of the dictionaries I have in mind or are already processed, are still copyrighted, therefore not available. (but I would rather use a PM for this kind of conversation)

I am sorry for the website not running today. Nothing wrong on my side: the site appears to be in the best shape (from its control panel), but in the reality the server is not responding. I am trying to contact the provider, but it seems that they have cut support for free-users... but I am trying nevertheless.

(Linguax,acis is a rare adjective used once by Gellius meaning the same as loquax,acis <- but that was unfortunately taken together with most of Latin words in their canonical form <- and it is short)

It will cost me around 82 USD / year (the domain and the hosting) so I will be glad for any donation. There is a donation bar in the dictionaries (it will disappear once it is filled) for the next year costs. (this year has been pretty much all payed by one generous donor, even though very many few donated).

In the case I couldn't keep it running solely on donations, I might think of advertisements... or some other annoying solutions.

The users from the old address will get redirected.

The server is now situated in Netherlands (the old is/was in Pennsylvania), so the users from Europe (as myself) might be happier now. But it should be faster in total, so all users, no matter the place, should get the pages faster (unless they have naturally a very slow Internet connection... but even with that maybe).

(I simultaneously moved my older project to http://www.linguax.com in case you wondered why the "/lexica" is there)

- Keys Z and X (or Y and X), can be used now to go to the previous or next page.
- Use TAB to type a new word
- Use arrow keys for easier orientation on the page/the picture
- Use ENTER instead of hitting OK

I came across your website and I liked it so much! You have done a wonderful job! The only "problem" I see is that it requires internet access.

I would love to create a desktop application to be able to use the dictionaries offline. In order to do this I would need to recreate the database in my computer, which implies going through every single page and notating the top-left word of it. Since this is a lot of work, I want to ask you if you would be willing to send me this information (the word index database). For the images I can write a script to download them automatically, so that is not a big problem.

aochagavia: Downloading the images directly from the website would be a problem since there is some traffic which costs something (please do not attempt it) But we would find a way. I may contact you in the future, once I have more time

thesaurus: I'm glad you like it. Actually there might be soon a purely digital version You will hear more from me about it.

mirum dictionarium est! I've never heard of this dictionary before, but this is much more in-depth than the Bantam and Cassell's that own (which are both excellent). It looks like Bolchazy-Carducci has reprinted it and the Amazon reviews are good. This will have to be added to my wishlist!

I'm going to publish several new dictionaries soon: among them critical English-Latin dictionaries, an English version of Forcellini, critical English-Attic dictionaries and much more.

Moreoever there might appear a fully digital hand-transcribed version of Forcellini.

I haven't yet asked for any donations for this year, maybe I will once I publish the dictionaries, since I still want the website to pay for itself without me feeling like I should include ads and similar annoyances.

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Godmy wrote:Moreoever there might appear a fully digital hand-transcribed version of Forcellini

I am amazed to read this. Transcribing Forcellini would be an enormous task, and the service rendered to students of Latin would be incomparable. We could even have new paper-bound editions of Forcellini, and possibly (computer-generated) abridged editions. It would be the only real monolingual Latin dictionary available, and what a dictionary!

Hi guys. For anybody looking for an online version of Smith & Hall's dictionary, some Brazilian guy has made us the great favour to put it up in a similar format as Godmy's dictionaries, so that you're able to search for headwords. Behold:

I'm afraid the existence of the Linguax website is endangered at the moment. I can either shut the site down (since I don't have finances to run this any longer with the number of both dictionaries/traffic and the high number of users every day I have) or I put ads (Google-Ads e.g.) into there and make them absolutely unblockable - something I would hate to do since I hate ads, or I start receiving donations :-/ I have received some rare ones from some of the users here, but I'm still afraid the website is a little bit more expensive. (more about that there)

First, I'm sorry for the lesser frequency of me answering to you, people, I must confess I visited Textkit scarcely in the last years.

anphph: I actually had something like that about 4 years ago, but it didn't work that well, I usually had to update it manually. But I suppose, since I developed the announcing system today, I should be able to tell everybody when we're covered (and I hope it's better just a matter of days than weeks). On one hand it's true that I didn't openly ask anybody for a donation for almost 4 years, on the other hand the donation button was there (albeit I made it much smaller than the original Paypal button was as to make it even less annoying to users, since I'm so anti-ad and anti-useless things on websites, myself being an AdBlock user) and I had to cover the last few years more or less from my pocket (although there was one donator who really helped me out a few times in the past and I spoke with him).

nesrad: I thought about that many times, but the thing is that I often correct things or make them better and I like less the solution of making repeated releases sometimes several gigabytes big. Also, I'm not sure how technically user friendly that would be. Aside from this nagging financial side of it, I still consider the web solution the most practical (most non-classical languages dictionaries I use are online too). But I can see your point! +the situation that has just transpired...

Alright, just in one week, we're covered thanks to you all! The site can continue now as it is.

Who would still like to help me in further development (or who hasn't donated yet and would like to) I still collect donations for reserves / for a kind of safety buffer (for the future) and every dollar will be appreciated and motivate me to work on more dictionaries!